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In 1976, SLAC’s Burton Richter (left) and MIT’s Samuel Ting were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their teams’ discoveries. This photo shows the two...

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December 10, 2024
In 1974, the independent discovery of the J/psi particle at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory rocked the physics world, and entire textbooks…

Stanford Data Science and KIPAC members Emmanuel Candès, Risa Wechsler, Susan Clark, and Chris Mentzel at the Center for Decoding the Universe fall forum. |...

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December 3, 2024
A new center brings astrophysics, data science, and AI together to answer some of the universe’s biggest questions.
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November 23, 2024
Steven Chu, Nobel laureate and former U.S. Secretary of Energy, has been awarded the Inaugural Chien-Shiung Wu Lifetime Achievement Medal.
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November 19, 2024
Stanford seniors Francesca Fernandes, Alvin Lee, Mikayla Tillery, and Kate Tully are among the recipients of the 2025…

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November 19, 2024
The Milky Way galaxy has long been considered the ideal model for studying galactic evolution.
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November 14, 2024
The Infosys Prize 2024 in Physical Sciences is awarded to Prof.
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November 6, 2024
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October 31, 2024
Risa Wechsler, professor of physics and director of the Kavli Institute of Particle…
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October 16, 2024
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The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize recognizes and encourages outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed…

10/24/1972 Construction of a new telescope observatory building, the Student Observatory.

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